Native Americans.

The travel route begins in Mount Enterprise and follows U.S. Highway 84 west to Rusk.

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Many map images are courtesy of:
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Endnotes:
1) Batts, R.L.; Batts’ Annotated Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1895, Volume 1; Eugene Von Boeckmann Publishing, Austin, 1897; https://www.google.com/books/edition/Batts_Annotated_Revised_Civil_Statutes_o/LMwnAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
2) Texas, A Guide to the Lone Star State; Hastings House, New York; 1940
3) Cherokee County History; Cherokee County Historical Commission, Jacksonville, Texas, 2001; https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth354360/m1/6/
4) “Rusk Permit Area”; U.S. Army Crops of Engineers; October, 2010; https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rusk_Permit_Area/Djk0AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=trammel%27s+trace+rusk+county+texas&pg=RA2-SA3-PA3&printsec=frontcover
5) “Texas and New Orleans Lines”; Southern Pacific Railroad History Center; https://splives.org/texas-and-new-orleans-lines/
6) Joplin Roach, Hattie; History of Cherokee County (Texas); Southwest Press, Dallas, 1934; https://archive.org/stream/historyofcheroke00roac/historyofcheroke00roac_djvu.txt
7) Biesele, Megan; “History and Development of Mount Enterprise, Texas”; Texas State Historical Association; April 1, 1995; https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/mount-enterprise-tx-rusk-county
8) Long, Christopher; “History and Development of Shady Grove, Texas”; Texas State Historical Association; April 1, 1995; https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/shady-grove-tx-cherokee-county